Loco releases his first album "Locomotive"!

[soyogi.livejournal.com]

Tracklist

01. 손바닥을 보여줘 (Hands Up ft. Crush)

02. 인상 써 (Act Serious ft. Ugly Duck , DJ Wegun)

03. 니가 모르게 (You Don't Know)

04. 자꾸 생각나 (Thinking About You ft. Jay Park)

05. 무례하게 (No Manners ft. Gray)

06. 높아 (High ft. Konsoul)

07. 좋겠어 (If I ft. Gray)

08. 적응 (Growing Up ft. Elo)

09. 감아 (Hold Me Tight ft. Crush)

source: MumbleBeatMusic 4A (Active) on Youtube

didn't listen to the full thing yet but I love the track with Elo!
side-eyeing the beginning of Act Serious. if that's really what it sounds like then...
edit: Growing Up is perfect. the whole thing is pretty great except for track two.
it briefly samples the Allah Akbar in the beginning. so unnecessary and disappointing.

Comments

[miwa201.livejournal.com]

yep, i heard allah akbar at the beginning.
tbh i doubt he knows about cl's mtbd mess, yg never apologized publicly, he just changed the track for her performances. i doubt most k-netizens know about it, ridiculous.

[soyogi.livejournal.com]

thought so :/ I didn't notice it at all until someone pointed it out.
if I recall correctly, the MTBD thing didn't get too much recognition in Korea, right? I doubt Loco's going to get called out at all for this song, especially since he's not promoting it. how sad.

[ckino (from livejournal.com)]

Tbh as a muslim I feel so offended by cl's mtbd mess. Crush is a great album but i just cant enjoy listen to it because it somehow makes me uncomfortable and i cant bring myself to enjoy it. It just feels...wrong. In the end I just give the album to one of my non-muslim student.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

That was such a mess. They didn't even take responsibility for it.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Just listened and it's definitely the Allahua Akbar.this idiot..

And since someone will inevitably show up and try to do the "people sample choirs all the time!" thing, Islam does not allow for religious texts (the Quran) to be set to music.The phrase Allahu Akbar (God is great) is sued in Azaan( muslim call to prayer), Namaaz (prayer) and Takbeer. (A chant). It has immense religious significance in Islam and this nugu asshole needs to get a clue. And kpop artists in general need to double-check shit before sampling, there's literally a billion and one arabic pop songs you could sample, why do they consistently go for religious things?

[fiercediva.livejournal.com]

Because they have to correctly clear the sample of a pop song with owner of the master recording & songwriter first (and pay for it) or be sued. The prayer was probably a sample of something in the public domain or that they thought they could get away with using for free.

[thevirginhyeri.livejournal.com]

before, i didnt know it was disrespectful to do that. Muslims should be doing more to educate the world of their religion

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

"there's literally a billion and one arabic pop songs you could sample, why do they consistently go for religious things?"

THIS SO MUCH! There's Arab pop artists like Amr Diab, Elissa, Nancy Ajram, Mashrou' Leila etc who they could've sampled from but noooooooooo.

[blinkmyday.livejournal.com]

I've been looking forward to his album only to be presented with this bs first impression. People need to do their research before adding stuff they don't understand to their music just to sound ~exotic. I'd like to be able to listen to his album without having the second track piss me off but ugh...

[soyogi.livejournal.com]

imo Act Serious isn't even that great - it's the longest song on the album and it kinda just... drones on. a little plain to my ears. skip it, the rest of it is worth the listen, especially tracks seven and eight if you like slower songs!

[innertide.livejournal.com]

why is this a trend to begin with? it's disrespecful af to appropriate from other cultures' religious texts and even more so when it's obviously done just for the cool points and nothing more. and the fact that this ass is appropriating an afro and trying so hard to be black/latino/everything he's not, you really can't take his shit seriously

[readyactiongo.livejournal.com]

guys he just tweeted an apology here (https://twitter.com/locogocrazy/status/538348189531643905)

[unlived.livejournal.com]

Link doesn't work.. and unless they are releasing the whole thing again, reprinting the album and re sending it to itunes it makes no difference if he apologized, i love me some LOCO and gray but that just left a bad impression. shows how stupid they are, it literally take 2 secs to google it... so sad. and the YG thing still pisses me off. i only like EPIK HIGH because i was a fans since the beginning and i used to love 2ne1 but now its over YG is dead to me now.

sorry for piggy backing your comment

[forgedeternally.livejournal.com]

Gray being all over this album makes me so happy. Except for that one song...

[forgedeternally.livejournal.com]

Track 8 is the most amazing thing ever, anyone knows who wrote it or produced it? I want to go stalk them and see if they've done any other work.

[ckino (from livejournal.com)]

My interest drop to 0%. So disrespectful. This dumbshits without research seriously need to stop.

[unlived.livejournal.com]

yea its getting really annoyin. no matter who it is... its making me loose faith in Korea....

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

His flat top puzzles me to no end.

[existingisfunny.livejournal.com]

same

[oniongulru.livejournal.com]

Research shit before you use it.

[canxi.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to the album yet, but saw this while going through Instagram.
The producer makes another apology: here (http://instagram.com/p/v846O0knZb/?modal=true) and Loco also adds in his sorry as well.

It seems they really didn't realize. But, I have to say if you don't know...just don't use it. At least they came out and apologized quickly instead of letting it go on for days. And it doesn't seem like they are putting anyone down with the apology, either. They'll have to edit and release it again, so I hope they do so.

[existingisfunny.livejournal.com]

Whatever song is playing at 16:16 reminds me of "Like A G6".

[nha2licious.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously offended. I hope they can pull out all of the track and re-released it with better on. And I appreciate that the producer and Loco himself already apologized of what had happened, unlikely for the other song *coughmenboongcough* and be consistently ignorant.

One question though, where did these producers get all those "samples" (refering to CL's and now this)? Cuz I know those samples wouldnt be untitled or without description. They're not even some random samples, heck they're not even samples.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering about that too. Where exactly are these samples coming from that they keep using them in their songs?

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Wasn't interested & surely never will be interested again.

[smilla-sini.livejournal.com]

I saw it on the Russian Loco fanboard that they'll release the new version on Monday and write off all the albums from the music stores (here: http://vk.com/wall-72424677_261), but there's no source mentioned.

[canxi.livejournal.com]

I'll give the album a listen when they re-release it. Hopefully, this'll encourage other producers NOT to use just anything they want as samples for their music.